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Mind apples and movement: simple tips to pamper your mind

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Is your mental health something you take for granted or something you work actively at maintaining?  We’re used to looking after our bodies, exercising regularly and feeding them nutritious food, but how often do we do something to look after our minds?  Cancer and heart disease may feel like very real threats (which they are) but actually an astonishing one
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Handpicked Links April 2010

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Green Kitchen Stories is a new to me blog with delicious, vegetarian recipes made by David and Luise in Stockholm. My favourites so far include this No-rice risotto with chard and Goats cheese and thyme dip.

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Is osteoporosis on your radar?

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1 in 2 is the number of women over the age of 50 who will break a bone because of poor bone health. i.e if you’re a woman and you are reading this, there’s a 50% of chance of this happening to you.  The figures for men aren’t much different at one in five.

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A very realistic plan to lose a pound (or how to banish your Christmas ‘food baby’ in 5 steps)

January 13, 2010

There’s a school of thought in nutrition that say’s that it’s christmas that’s ruining our waistlines.  Most of don’t gain nearly as much as we think we have over the festive season (on average about a pound) but the problem is that most of us don’t lose that pound in the early months of the new year.  When you … Read the full post

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